The winner-take-all showdown between Hampton and Menchville, originally scheduled for Tuesday night, was washed out. The makeup date has been set for 6 p.m. Thursday at War Memorial Stadium.

After plenty of standing around under threatening clouds, officials finally made the call at 5:49 p.m — 11 minutes before the scheduled start time. Five minutes after they did, the skies opened and flooded the field.

The forecast for Thursday night is more encouraging: partly cloudy, 20 percent chance of rain.

The scheduled starting pitchers for Tuesday’s game were Steve Hux (8-1) for Hampton and Garrett Chrismon (6-2) for Menchville.

The winner will receive the No. 1 seed in the Peninsula District tournament, which begins Saturday morning at War Memorial. More important, the winner also will earn the PD's automatic spot in the Eastern Region tournament, which begins Memorial Day at the Bud Metheny Complex in Norfolk.

It will be the first playoff game to decide the PD's top seed since 1986, when Ferguson beat Menchville.

For the first time in who knows when, Hampton swept Menchville during the Peninsula District baseball season. But in order to secure the PD's automatic spot in the Eastern Region tournament, the Crabbers will have to make it three in a row over the Monarchs in a one-game playoff Tuesday night at...

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